Tv series that stuck with you

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I was watching an old episode of gogglebox - they were watching the final episode of Its a Sin and I instantly started tearing up. I remember when I watched it I couldn’t stop crying for hours - the scene where the main character is in hospital and tells his mum, he just looks like a scared boy. I thought it was a fantastic series but il never watch it again.
Is there a scene in a series that just sticks in your head and that emotion comes straight back as soon as you think about it?

I can't remember what it was called

But in the 90s

People played a simulation game on the internet on how to commit the perfect murder. Once you'd completed the game you could enter any details you liked, eg a real person. And you then had to commit the perfect murder.

Then that person would "perfectly" be murdered in real life by the person who made the game.

Is this the one where the brother and sister got separated and sent to Australia? I vaguely recall a scene about getting tonsils removed.

I loved Bod !!! Aunt Flo, Alberto frog and his animal orchestra choosing milkshake. I can even remember the policeman's musical introduction 🙂

Aye, that's the one, based on the stories of kids who were 'adopted' to Australia in the early part of the 20th century.

Prime suspect
Band of gold

Yes, The Leaving of Liverpool and the wee boy drowning.
There was an Australuan series called The Dirtwater Dynasty and I remember some scenes from that. There was an execution of ANZAC POWs by Japanese soldiers and the ones forced to watch start singing The Road To Gundagai.

Yes! I loved the books

Roots
Threads
I Claudius

Killer Net!! We were talking about it on another thread recently. Jason Orange was in it. It’s available to watch on Prime now.

Thank you!

Magical events happening to Edwardian children sounded very E Nesbit but I've read and reread 5 Children and It and the sequels so many times that I knew it couldn't have been any of them.

The Enchanted Castle sounds vety creepy!

Oh yes, the original series of V from the 80s.

I remember the shock the first time that one of the aliens peeled off his human mask to show that he was a lizard like creature. Terrifying!

@BobbyBiscuits I was obsessed with The Gemini Factor and the book also! Really stuck with me.

Goodnight Mr Tom about war time evacuees

The Borrowers. I took it far too seriously.

And something about a seal/sea lion coming to live with a family. Obviously it didn't stick with me that well but I can see snippets!

Northern Exposure - pure comfort watching

Another vote for Buffy and I totally agree with you. I am old enough to have watched the show when it was originally aired and it was brilliant TV.

Re-watching as an adult with my own adult daughters I still loved it just as much (as did they) and was also blown away by how brilliantly this show was done. It is superb. The writing, the story arc's, the comedy delivery, the drama and the action, just brilliant. Also the very last episode has to be one of the best, most moving and poignant endings to a TV show that I have ever seen. That final episode was a masterpiece in TV making and wrapped the show up in the most perfect way and is something I have never forgotten. Now that is how you end a TV show!!! Awesome stuff.

Dark Towers
The Boy From Space

Shown in school when I was a kid. Never forgotten either of them. Loved it when the teacher would wheel out the TV ready for the next episode!!

Boys from the Black stuff. We had family in Liverpool at the time and they were suffering really badly with Unemployment. The episode where they have to eat the kids pet bunny to survive as they have no food. If I remember rightly Julie Walters plays one of the wives and is pleading for her hubby not to do it. Always sticks with me.

Great thread!

Mine:

Sci fi/fantasy:

Battlestar Galactica, (the remake). The first episode is probably the best tv I have ever seen.
Buffy
The Walking Dead
Survivors (the original - watched as a child and rewatched later - brilliant and chilling). There are some spin-offs with the original cast on Audible if anyone is interested.
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The Handmaid’s Tale

Comedy:

Blackadder - Goodbyee
Superstore - the first few series - gosh, this cheered me up during Covid
The Good Place - ditto - just really life-affirming!
SATC (NOT the films😹)

Drama:

The Wire
Prisoner Cell Block H and the remake: Prisoner

KDrama:

Hotel del Luna - cried throughout!
Missing: The Other Side - ditto!
All of Us Are Dead: Brilliant zombie KDrama set in a high school with some really hard-hitting social issues
Hyori’s Bed and Breakfast - Korean reality TV - again, this really helped me during the pandemic- just such a NICE programme

Likely current contenders for staying with me:
Silo
Severance

I missed off:

Into the Night: Probably the most terrifying children’s TV series ever made. Based on the novel Marianne Dreams, about a girl sick in bed whose drawings come to life in her sleep. It still haunts me now 🙀

Hill Street Blues - "let's be careful out there".

Still Game - very watchable over and over . The last episode is quite sad and end-of-an-era.

OFAH - it's always on repeat and some cracking episodes but the one where Del is meant to give Rodney his flat deposit but owes the Driscoll Brothers . The scene at the end where Rodders is ranting to Del then sees his money and we see how Del got out of paying the Driscolls

I remember an episode of "Upstairs, Downstairs as a 12 year old (my mum's favourite show at the time), where the family/servants were talking excitedly about "her Ladyship" going to America aboard "that wonderful new ship the Titanic". My mum's reaction of "don't do it, cancel her trip" is what made that episode stay with me so many years later.

Another vote for Six Feet Under.

We spend most of our lives fearing death and trying to ignore the inevitable fact that we and those we love are all going to die one day.

This show deals with the subject of death in such a sensitive way. It completely changed the way I think I about grief and dying, thus changing the way I also think about life.

The end of the final episode is just spine tingling.

That's it! Thanks so much. Not sure whether to watch as I'm fairly sure it wouldn't live up to the absolute terror that it caused me back then. Glad to know that I've not imagined it though!

I loved Survivors.

The remake was crap.